About the role
Harvard University is hiring a Software Developer for the HIDIVE Lab at Harvard Medical School. The role develops and maintains software integrating conversational AI, biomedical data portals, and interactive visualizations, while collaborating with researchers, designers, and engineers. ResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain web-based software for biomedical data discovery and visualizationParticipate fully in the software development life cycle across multiple concurrent projectsIdentify, triage, and resolve software bugs and performance bottlenecks using browser developer tools across multiple browsers and devices to ensure a seamless, high-performance user experienceWrite tests and documentation, and maintain reliable, open-source codeParticipate in code reviews, issue tracking, and iterative product developmentContribute to utility tools for metadata management and file format handling for genomic, single-cell, and bioimaging data (e.g., VCF, BAM, BigWig, BED, OME-NGFF, Zarr, Spatia